Portable floor wax cart



y 1962 P. G. ENGLEHART PORTABLE FLOOR WAX CART Filed Aug. 29. 1960 INVENTOR.

I g n I U a ATTORNEY United States Filed Aug. 29, 1960, Ser. No. 52,624 1 Claim. (Cl. 257.05)

This invention relates to a portable floor wax cart. It is usual practise when waxing large floor surfaces in public buildings and the like to place the liquid Wax in a pan or bucket or other suitable container in which the waxspreader is repeatedly dipped. The result is a laborious and messy procedure since it requires the operator to continually make trips back and forth to the wax container resulting in dripping the wax over the floor and requiring frequent stops to move the wax container to a more convenient location. Attempt to move the container 'by means of the applicator results in spilling and splashing of the wax and over-soaking of the applicator.

The principal object of this invention is to provide an easily portable wax cart or container with an applicator rest whereby the container can be readily moved in any direction over the floor by simply pressing the applicator against the applicator rest so that the container can be continuously moved to convenient, close ready-to-use positions without requiring any bending, lifting or stop page on the part of the user and without spillage of the wax or excess application to the applicator.

Another object of the invention is to provide a continuously portable wax containing cart with a readily removable wringing screen against which the wax applicator can be pressed to quickly remove excess wax from the applicator simultaneously with the movement of the cart over the floor.

A still further object is to provide a wheeled floor wax container so constructed that liquid wax will continuously gravitate to one extremity of the container so as to provide a usable depth of wax until the wax has been completely exhausted.

Other objects and advantages reside in the detail construction of the invention, which is designed for simplicity, economy, and eflic-iency. These will become more apparent from the following description.

In the following detailed description of the invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing which forms a part hereof. Like numerals refer to like parts in all views of the drawing and throughout the description.

In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the improved portable fioor wax cart;

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal medial section therethrough taken on the line 2-2, FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a detail enlargement of a portion of the sectional view of FIG. 2; and

FIG. 4 has an enlarged fragmentary view illustrating a type of screen employed in the improved floor wax cart.

The container portion of the improved wax cart comprises a rectangular, comparatively-shallow, rectangular pan having two straight side walls 10 and 11, two straight end walls 12 and 13, and a flat bottom 14. The pan has a width in excess of the width of conventional wax applicators preferably 18" and a length of preferably 24". The upper edges of the walls 10, 11, 12 and 13 are rolled downwardly, as indicated at 15, to form a rounded upper peripheral edge completely around the pan. The pan is preferably formed from a single blank of sheet metal welded at the four vertical corners to form a solution tight container.

The pan is supported at its forward extremity upon two, relatively small roller casters 16 mounted on the bottom 14 adjacent the front end wall 13 and upon two similar roller casters 17, of larger diameter than the atent Bfiidfiiifi Patented July 17, 1962 ice casters 16, mounted on the bottom 14 adjacent the rear end wall 12. The use of larger casters adjacent the rear end of the pan results in inclining the entire pan relative to the floor line, indicated at 18, so that liquid wax, indicated at 19, will have a greater depth adjacent the front end wall 13 than adjacent the rear end wall 12.

' A perforated screen 20 preferably of the expanded metal type, as shown in FIG. 4, is removably supported over the wax at the rear extremity of the pan. The screen is supported by means of two elongated side hook strips 21 and 22 and a similar end hook strip 23. The hook strips 21, 22 and 23 are elongated metal strips, the lower edges of which are bent outwardly at right angles to the strip to form supporting flanges 24 and the upper edges of which are bent into a hook-shaped cross section so that they can be hooked over the upper edges of the side walls 16 and 11 of the pan and over'the'upper edge of theend wall 12 thereof. The strips 21, 22 and 23' are permanently attached to the screen 20 in any desired manner, such as by spot welding the screen to the supporting flanges 24.

The length of the screen 20 is substantially equal to the width of the pan and the width of the screen 20 is substantially equal to one-half the length of the pan. The front edge of the screen is stiffened and the rough edge thereof is covered by means of a front strip 25 of L-shape cross section permanently secured to the screen in any desired manner, such as by means of spot welding.

In use, the pan is partially filled with liquid' wax. A conventional wax applicator is dipped into the wax in the forward portion of the pan and is then pressed against the screen 20 to remove any suspended drops of wax and to uniformly distribute the wax over the applicator. The applicator and the wax are then applied to the floor in the usual manner.

It will be noted that whenever the operator places his floor wax applicator on the screen 20 to remove excess wax he can simultaneously push, pull or swing the wax cart in any desired direction to position it in a convenient place for the next application. Therefore, the improved wax cart will be constantly traveling with the application of the wax and as long as there is any wax present in the pan, it will be gathered at the open forward portion of the pan within easy reach of the applicator.

The relatively stiff screen 20 serves in the nature of a wringer in that when the applicator is pressed against the screen, the Wax will be squeezed therefrom and will return to the pan.

As above described, the pan has been inclined by using larger casters beneathone extremity of the pan than the other extremity thereof. The same result could, of course, be obtained by the use of uniformly-sized casters with spacing means elevating one extremity of the pan on the casters at that extremity.

The term wax as used herein includes all types of water-emulsion temporary floor coatings such as fluid waxes or synthetics as well as the semi-permanent solvent base products used to seal floors.

While a specific form of the improvement has been described and illustrated herein, it is to be understood that the same may be varied within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed and desired secured by Letters Patent is:

A portable floor wax cart consisting of an elongated, rectangular, open topped, flat bottomed, iluidtight pan having upstanding side walls and end walls, all of uniform height; a screen having a length substantially equal to the width of said pan and a width substantially equal to one-half the length of said pan positioned below the upper edges of the side and end walls of the pan; elongated metallic strips having inwardly turned lower edges upon which said screen is positioned and hooked upper edges detachably hooked over the upper edges of the side walls and one end wall of said part; a caster wheel mounted beneath said pan adjacent each-corner thereof, the two References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Saxton Sept. 21, Sgarlata Mar. 17, Hill I an. 26, Wolfer Dec. 4, Drum 5 Nov. 24, Twerdahl Ian. 5,

Wisner Mar. 9, 

